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The only obligation any artist can have is to himself. His work means nothing, otherwise. It has no meaning.
Truman Capote
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Truman Capote
Age: 59 †
Born: 1924
Born: September 30
Died: 1984
Died: August 25
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Traveling wears me out.
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When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip and the whip is intended for self-flagellation solely.
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I will say only that all a writer has to work with is the material he has gathered as the result of his own endeavor and observations, and he cannot be denied the right to use it. Condemn, but not deny.
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That's the question: is truth an illusion, or is illusion truth, or are they essentially the same? Myself, I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.
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All human life has its seasons and cycles, and no one's personal chaos can be permanent. Winter, after all, gives way to spring and summer, though sometimes when branches stay dark and the earth cracks with ice, one thinks they will never come, that spring, and that summer, but they do, and always.
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Still, when all is said, somewhere one must belong: even the soaring falcon returns to its master's wrist.
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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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There were hints of sunrise on the rim of the sky, yet it was still dark, and the traces of morning color were like goldfish swimming in ink.
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It's a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
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I think I would have written five times as much as I've written if I didn't have this terrible sense of perfection.
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Reading dreams. That's what started her walking down the road. Every day she'd walk a little further: a mile, and come home. Two miles, and come home. One day she just kept on.
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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox.
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